Writing Samples

Links to some of my professional work.

The Botetourt Bee (thebotetourtbee.com)

Supervisors Considered Zoning Changes on 3 Items

Pay Increase Approved for Botetourt Fire-EMS

Recreation Fund Incentives Include Addy Grace Foundation

Supervisors Meeting Additional Info Items

Redefining Convenience Store May Aid New Truckstop at Exit 162

Courthouse Design Renovations Approved

Botetourt County Officials Weigh in on Legislative Issues

Roads Info and Yes It's True a Dairy Queen is Under Review in Daleville

roanoke.com (The Roanoke Times)

Published book reviews

The Snow Child
Burnt Mountain 

Summer in the South

Learning to Swim

William Faulkner Memoir

The Good Daughter

The Blueberry Years

Cia Bella

The Girl Who Fell from the Sky

The Moon Looked Down

Lime Tree Can't Bear Orange

Bound South

Off Season

Newsroanoke.com (The Roanoke Star-Sentinel)

Blue Collar Joes: Worth the Drive for Designer Donuts
Going Local at First Food Expo
WRABA Chief Now Pulling Double Duty
Friends Come Out to Honor Former Marathoner
Troutville's Friends of the Park Find Way to Fund Gazebo
Botetourt hosts environmental expo
Meredith was legendary coach, respected supervisor
Second life for former Roanoke postmaster
Visioning Botetourt in the future

Cooperative Living

Down Home in Fincastle
Down Home in Catawba
Down Home in Eagle Rock

Miscellaneous

Virginia's Christmas Tree Champion (Valley Business Front; scroll to page 48)

When the Wheel Stops Turning: An Examination of the Fan Fiction of Mary Morgan

Has Everyone in the Xenaverse Been to a Con Except Me?